Last Updated on: 13th April 2025, 09:23 am
Commercial real estate finance is undergoing a wave of digital change – and Loanboox is emerging as a vital technology partner for property firms looking to modernise their financial processes.
Loanboox’s SaaS solution, launched in 2022 specifically for the real estate market, is seeing remarkable uptake. The platform has supported tenders totalling over five billion euros, with 50% of that volume facilitated in just the last few months of 2024.
“The real estate industry is local and highly fragmented. It is therefore under particular pressure to digitise processes and make them more transparent – especially when it comes to financing,” said Urs Meier, CEO of Loanboox. “With our software, we offer exactly the right tool at the right time: a comprehensive solution that efficiently brings borrowers and lenders together and maps the entire process from the tender to portfolio management.”
A collaborative study by Loanboox and Fresenius University of Applied Sciences found that 67% of property firms surveyed identified shortcomings in digital finance processes. Notably, 75% of respondents favoured bespoke industry platforms over standard office applications – pointing to growing expectations for specialist technology.
Loanboox delivers precisely this: a platform that enables real estate borrowers to manage funding workflows end-to-end, while working directly with trusted lenders. With user access doubling year-on-year and a 90% financing success rate, the software is clearly meeting a pressing market need.
To date, Loanboox’s technology has enabled over €100 billion in financing across multiple sectors since its launch in 2016 – demonstrating its established footprint in the digital finance space.
Loanboox on its way to becoming pan-European financing software in real estate
Loanboox customers have made financings in 16 European countries already, with Germany, Switzerland, France and Austria being the key markets. The company has recently seen a sharp increase in demand. In Germany in particular, Loanboox has signed up tier 1 real estate asset managers and project developers. And in the last six months alone they have already published financing requests in the three-digit million range via Loanboox’s software.
“Today, we have more than 500 lenders in Europe using our software, who particularly appreciate the ease of use, the multilingualism and the quality of the tendering process. This means that Loanboox has one of the largest networks of lenders and the high number of repeat deals shows the very solid level of acceptance of our technology,” said Dominique Hügli, CPO (Chief Product Officer) at Loanboox. The large network of lenders is also particularly attractive for companies looking to finance real estate projects in the DACH region from other European countries.
Debt Management module allows customers to manage their capital efficiently
Another growth driver is the integrated debt management module: European asset managers, real estate companies, project developers and housing companies currently use the software to manage a loan volume of more than five billion euros via the software – and the trend is rising.
“Our solution offers a 360-degree view for financing experts – from relationship management with lenders and financing processes to comprehensive loan management, evaluation and scenario planning,” explains Hügli.
2025: Digitalization is advancing – broad market comparison for financing necessary
With banks still reluctant to lend and the cost of managing loans rising, digital financing processes with a broad network of lenders are becoming increasingly important. Loanboox intends to take advantage of this momentum and the ongoing digitalization of the real estate industry and systematically expand its reach in Europe.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is of course also finding its way into the real estate industry and will in the future help finance teams to process complex data efficiently, identify suitable financing options more quickly and facilitate the exchange with lenders. Whether it is the automated extraction of information from loan agreements and term sheets, the creation of teaser documents or the targeted analysis of portfolio data, AI opens up new efficiency potential along the entire financing process. AI also significantly simplifies the intelligent search in the data room of a tender – a function that has already been successfully implemented at Loanboox. The continuous integration of AI will continue for Loanboox in 2025 to enable even more effective and data-driven collaboration between borrowers and lenders.
